Indriya

There are always negative forces opposing satsang and meditation. In the Ramayana it is written "indriya dwar gharokha nana/tana-tahan sur baithey kari thana/aawat dekhi vishay banjari/tey jhat det kapat ughari". It says that the senses are like doors and windows which are guarded by various deities. For example, you are sitting in meditation and sense-stimuli come to you as if on the wind. Your eyes open to look around, your ears pick up sounds, your nose perceives good and bad smells. No matter how hard you try to overcome them, these gates of the senses take you away from meditation. They have other things they prefer to spirituality. They do all they can to prevent you from achieving liberation, so that you are stuck in the cycle of reincarnation and they have a vehicle for indulging themselves.
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